The music business looks like, you know, innocent schoolboys compared to the TV business. They care about nothing but profit. — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
When I decided to be a musician I reckoned that that was going to be the way of less profit, less money.… — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
In the mid-'60s, AM radio, pop radio, was just this incredible thing that played all kinds of music... You could hear Frank… — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
I think that if people realize that with an mp3, you're only getting five percent of the sound that's there. But when… — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
Music really isn’t supposed to be perfect. It’s all about people relating to each other and doing something that’s really from the… — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
Music is probably the only real magic I have encountered in my life. There's not some trick involved with it. It's pure… — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
It's funny how the music industry is enraged about the Internet and the way things are copied without being paid for. But… — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
Rock isn't a young music anymore. I don't think it's necessarily even a youth-oriented music. — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
If I'd had to work at Taco Bell I'd have still been out at night trying to play music. — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
Artists aren't necessarily business people. And they aren't necessarily aware of all the things that go on in their names. Some just… — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
The music has to be affordable. It's the common man that keeps it going, and if you price it out of his… — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
I don't know, my music has always just come from where the wind blew me. Like where I'm at during a particular… — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
Making a record? You've got to have the song, then you create a record. I think it's the same with a live… — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
There was no use pretending, no magic left to hear, all the music gave me was a craving for lite beer. — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
I think, in America, for a long time you had groups that wanted to be stars more than they wanted to make… — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
We haven't always been boy scouts, but we never lost sight of the music, Let me remind you that this ain't the… — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
It's very easy to be cynical about the hall of fame. But on the other hand, it's really a beautiful thing for… — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
The radio has so many rules, and songs don't. You don't necessarily write to a rule book unless you're, like, just doing… — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
As time goes by, you seem to weed out the things that were making your life hard. — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
Take back your insurance, baby, nothing is guaranteed. Take back your acid rain, let your TV bleed. — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
The great thing about the Wilburys was that none of us had to take the heat by ourselves. I was just a member of… — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
I don't believe in censorship, but I do believe that an artist has to take some moral responsibility for what he or she is… — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
If you look around at America, that's one of its biggest problems is you have corporations that can never be pleased at a profit. — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
Even the losers get lucky sometimes. Even the losers keep a little bit of pride. They get lucky sometimes. — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
If you stretch your imagination, I'll tell you all a tale, about a time when everything wasn't up for sale. — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
Buy me a drink, sing me a song; take me as I come, cause I can't stay long. — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
